ON THIS DAY, APRIL 27
Highest youth unemployment in the world, how is that freedom? We are killed by illegal immigrants that came through your government’s porous borders.
Jerusalem’s King Conrad is assassinated, two days after his regency is confirmed. The deed is carried out by the Hashshashin, from whom we get the word ‘assassin’.
Heroic clergyman William Mompesson is born. During the Great Plague of 1655, he led the population of the infected village of Eyam, north of London, to isolate themselves, preventing the spread of the disease.
Must we celebrate for:Unemployment? Forced unlawful oppressive Covid-19 regulations? Forced injection with deadly vaccines? Looting of state resources by Cyril and his comrades? Being told lies by Cyril? Illegal immigrants tormenting us?#FreedomDay2022
Grateful outsiders left food and money at the village boundary. Of the settlement’s 350 inhabitants, 260 died from the plague.
Jan van Riebeeck complains to his bosses that it’s bad idea to settle Burghers in Hout Bay, far from the fort at the Cape.
Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on the HMS Bounty and sets Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift, but being a skilled navigator Bligh manages the incredible feat
Malema as usual will be rambling today on #FreedomDay, land this, land that, addressing thousands of unemployed EFF members who desperately need any job to feed their families. Yikes. of sailing to safety to Timor, in the Dutch East Indies, nearly 4 000 nautical miles away.
Chinese and Irish labourers lay 16km of track in a day in a race to build a transcontinental US railway. The feat remains unmatched.
Outlaw Billy the Kid kills two deputies while escaping from jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, with Sheriff Pat Garrett in hot pursuit.
The one billionth minute since the start of January 1 Year Zero is at 10.40am.
Wembley Stadium opens to host the FA Cup Final between Bolton and West Ham.
German torpedo boats attack D-Day rehearsals off Devon, killing 946 troops.
Benito Mussolini and his mistress are executed by a partisan firing squad.
Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki crew set out from Peru to show that Peruvians could have settled Polynesia.
A five-hour series of explosions rip through a bomb-laden train in Antelope, California, wiping it off the map.
High levels of radiation from the Chernobyl disaster are detected in Sweden, leading the Soviets to own up.
Live TV shows a very woolly Shrek, a New Zealand sheep, being finally shorn after avoiding the sheers for six years. The fleece weighed 27kg. | THE HISTORIAN